The wrestler's body :: identity and ideology in north India /

This book tells the story of a way of life organized in terms of physical self-development. While Indian wrestlers are competitive athletes, they are also moral reformers whose conception of self and society is fundamentally somatic. Using the insights of anthropology, Joseph Alter writes an ethnogr...

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1. Verfasser: Alter, Joseph S.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1992.
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Zusammenfassung:This book tells the story of a way of life organized in terms of physical self-development. While Indian wrestlers are competitive athletes, they are also moral reformers whose conception of self and society is fundamentally somatic. Using the insights of anthropology, Joseph Alter writes an ethnography of the wrestler's physique that elucidates the somatic structure of the wrestler's identity and ideology.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xv, 305 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-294) and index.
ISBN:9780520912175
0520912179
0585111375
9780585111377
0520076974
9780520076976

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